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Official No: 140327
Builder: Wm Doxford & Sons Ltd., Pallion Yard, Sunderland
Launched: 19 May 1917
Pennant No: D 61 / Y 3.1791
Into Service: 8 September 1917
Out of service: 1918
Fate: 7 April 1941 scuttled when caught fire
Items of historic interest involving this ship: –
Background Data: One of an additional group of ships requisitioned by the Admiralty during WW1 to augment the ships of the RFA
Career Data:
19 May 1917 launched by Wm. Doxford & Sons Ltd., Pallion Yard, Sunderland as Yard Nr: 511 named Admiral Cochrane for Byron Steamships Co Ltd., (M A Embricos, Manager), London
September 1917 completed
8 September 1917 requisitioned by the Admiralty for service as a Collier – name changed – until 29 October 1917
30 October 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying British Hay and oats until 18 July 1918
19 September 1918 re-deployed as a Transport carrying wheat from Canada until 8 November 1918
9 November 1918 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying British Hay and oats
4 January 1919 at the Downs in collision with the British steamer Kathleen Lily
13 July 1919 sailed Sydney CB for Gibraltar
10 June 1921 arrived Liverpool from Norfolk
13 July 1921 arrived Norfolk from Liverpool
9 November 1922 at 46.37N 8.53W towed steamer Asturian which had a bad list heading towards Ferrol, Spain
25 April 1923 sailed Portland for Gibraltar
11 November 1923 sailed the River Tyne for Hampton Roads
1928 sold to M A Embiricos, Andros and was renamed Petalli
1 February 1941 sailed Aden in escorted convoy BN14 until it dispersed on 3 February 1941
7 April 1941 was scuttled outside Piraeus after catching fire when the Clan Line ship Clan Fraser was bombed and exploded with great force
Notes:
- Clan Fraser arrived in Piraeus with a cargo of military stores including ammunition on 4 April 1941. On the evening of the 6th she was struck by 3 bombs during an air raid which killed seven members of her crew. The remainer evacuated the ship and for five hours she burned fiercely before exploding with tremendous force. The explosion did enormous damage to Piraeus port and other shipping and even shook buidings 15 miles inland